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ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY.

charge to

beginning of every term ; Provided, that nothing herein con-

grand juries

tained shall be construed to extend to negroes or mulattoes em-

ployed as wagoners, or travellers putting up or stopping whilst

travelling through said counties.

ORPHANS COURT.

AN ACT to increase the pay of the Judges of the Orphans Court for Anne

Arundel County.— 1818, ch. 182.

Allowance

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,

increased.

That from and after the passage of this act, each judge of the

orphans court of Anne Arundel county, be, and he is hereby

entitled to receive, in lieu of his present per diem, the sum of

three dollars for every day's attendance.

NOTE.— 1828, ch. 12, was repealed by 1829, ch.43, which was repealed

by 1831, ch. 248, which was modified by 1836, ch. 18.

AN ACT to regulate the meetings of the Orphans Court of Anne Arundel

County .—1831, ch. 248.

Term fixed.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That the regular terms of the orphans court of Anne Arundel

county, shall be held on the second Tuesday in every month of

February, April, June, August, October and December, and

the said court shall, by its adjournment, if necessary for the

despatch of business, be held on the Tuesday of every week in

the year, other than the weeks of the regular terms.

Hours fixed.

SEO. 2. And be it enacted, That the said orphans court shall

set for the transaction of business, from nine o'clock, A. M. until

three o'clock, P. M. and the sessions of said court, shall not at

any time exceed one day, except at the regular time of holding

the county courts of said county, when the said orphans court

Stipulation.

may set during the whole term of said county court, if neces-

sary for the despatch of business.

Repealing

SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That the act to regulate the meet-

clause.

ing of the orphans court of Anne Arundel county, passed at

December session, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, chapter

forty-three, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT to regulate the meetings of the Orphans Court

of Anne Arundel County, passed at December session, eighteen hun-

dred and thirty-one, chapter two hundred and forty-eight. — 1836, ch. 18.

May con-

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,

tinue in
session, in

That the orphans court of Anne Arundel county, shall be, and

case, &c.

is hereby authorised to continue its sessions from day to day,

whenever it shall appear to them to be necessary, for the purpose

of examining witnesses, or hearing an argument, or arguments,

in any case which they may hereafter have before them, where